I am a lay Parent Advocate assisting parents of children with disabilities in school IDEA, 504 and SST meetings. I am a former CHADD and LDA Coordinator, graduate of the 1st GA Advocacy Office PLSP legal training course and most importantly parent of two children with various disabilities.

Monday, August 08, 2011

Fulton County & Progress Reports

For those of you in Fulton County with an IEP, remember to change your Progress Reporting period in your IEP. Fulton has it listed as "Progress on goals and objectives will be sent home with report cards at the end of the semester". Change to "will be sent home with report cards EVERY six weeks".

They did this to save $$ on paper. My bigger concern is that they will not actually update progress and parents need to know this progress at every report card period. Parents should track progress on goals/objectives. There may be times when the goals/objectives need to be changed and updated before an annual IEP.

If you haven’t had it changed in your IEP, request in e-mail they do an “Addendum” to make this change now!

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CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED Information contained in this communication is confidential and privileged. It is not meant to represent legal or medical advice, but rather advice given based on my knowledge as a trained Parent Advocate by the GA Advocacy Office, Council of Parent Advocates & Attorneys, CHADD, LDA, the GA DOE Parent Mentor program as an invited guest and the special education attorneys that I often work with on educational matters. Please do not forward without my permission.